Quotes About Direction

Some commands are more easily given than obeyed.

For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction.

I am running to and you are running from, and there's a world of difference there.

Where the king goes, the realm follows -Catlyn Stark-

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.

A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder… if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what you want them to achieve, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Without someone to set the pendulum's swing, we wouldn't know where to find the middle. None of us in the business of making changes gets everything we want, the extremists allow us to look like moderates and to go after changes that will make a difference.

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.

The quickest way for anyone to reach the sun and the light of day is not to run west, chasing after the setting sun, but to head east, plunging into the darkness until one comes to the sunrise.

If you are a leader, the people are your work.

Don't make yourself so special," the dwarf said with a snort. "As if getting lost was some trick that only women knew. I've known men who could get lost in their own bedrooms. The only difference is that men with no sense of direction don't brag about it, the way women do.

I have this recurring nightmare where I'm lost in a strange forest, and my only hope is your sense of direction. Enough to give a fellow the sweats, it is.

I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.

To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.

We each need to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.